It’s Amazing What a Difference a Few Months Can Make

Then-Vice President Kamala Harris tried to tell us that she wasn’t a threat to our gun rights. After all, she explained, she was a gun owner herself. She had a Glock.

This was taken as evidence that all of our concerns about her were misplaced. Never mind that she’d offered support for a handgun ban in the past and was currently pushing for an “assault weapon” ban. Oh no, she owned a Glock, which meant she was one of us.

But just a few months later, we see what Glock ownership means.

Gun control groups, 2024: “Of course Kamala Harris isn’t anti-gun, she owns a Glock!”

Gun control groups, 2025: “Ban Glocks!” https://t.co/6CMybwjAEu

— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) April 29, 2025

Unsurprisingly, Everytown tries to frame it as them just doing the responsible thing by working to ban guns that are “easily convertible” into machine guns, referring to them as “DIY machine guns,” but seemingly ignoring that Glock is in no way responsible for these conversions.

See, Glock didn’t make the so-called Glock switches. They didn’t design them, and they don’t manufacture them.

What they built is a gun that has a reputation for reliability and is the preferred firearm for law enforcement agencies across the nation, as well as millions of lawful gun owners.

Then someone figured out how to replace the back plate on the slide of the Glock and put in a device that converts it to fully-automatic fire. That’s not on them.

Anti-gunners want to force Glock to change its design completely because of this, but Glock’s design is a proven one. While I might knock them for not coming up with anything that’s really all that new, the truth is that they’re still working, still selling, and still reliable. There’s no reason for them to change anything. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

What third parties do with their guns isn’t their responsibility.

Besides, if gun control worked so well, then why didn’t the pre-existing prohibition on full-auto switches prevent these things from floating around and becoming a problem?

These devices fall under the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the 1986 Machine Gun Ban. While there are apparently a handful that are supposedly transferable, there aren’t many, and they’re all accounted for. If gun control worked so well, why would we need to ban Glocks when the switches that supposedly turn them into murder hoses are already prohibited?

The short answer is that it doesn’t. It’s never worked, and yet every time we find that it fails, the answer from Everytown is to step it up a notch.

“We’re just trying to keep machine guns off of our streets,” they’ll say, but they’ll neglect to mention that we already tried that and clearly, it didn’t work. 

So now they want our Glocks, the most popular brand of handgun in the country.

Once they can get those, they’ll turn their attention to another company, and it’ll keep on and on and on until there’s nothing left.

They’re fine with playing the long game. We just need to make sure it’s a negative game for them; one where they keep rolling backward instead of forward.

Unfortunately, they’re trying this in Illinois, where they’re likely to get it passed.